Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), December 2016

by: jbk
text: VideoLAN&#x2F;VLC - Paris, France (Remote possible)<p>We are VideoLabs (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;videolabs.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;videolabs.io</a>), a company around the open source technologies of VideoLAN and VLC (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;videolan.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;videolan.org&#x2F;</a>)<p>We are currently looking for Freelance (or Interns) for a few topics:<p>* Unity on Android (VR related)<p>* macOS and iOS low-level (Obj-C&#x2F;C, and maybe a bit of UI)<p>* UWP&#x2F;XAML development<p>* C&#x2F;C++ for audio&#x2F;video development (codecs, filters and so on)<p>* people interested in asm.js and emscripten<p>Email: jobs@videolabs.io

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. Open Source developer on Open edX (OpenCraft - Remote&#x2F;worldwide company based in Berlin)<p>Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of nine developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia &amp; Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS&#x2F;OpenStack, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Interview process: a 15 minutes (simple) coding exercise &amp; a 30 minutes Hangout. If that works out, you&#x27;re given a (paid) test task: a contribution to the Open edX project. The decision is taken based on how you handle the upstream contribution.<p>To apply, fill this form: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencraft.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;open-source-developer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencraft.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;open-source-developer&#x2F;</a>

by: dooskington
text: Buffalo, NY - Remote works just fine<p>We&#x27;re looking for an iOS developer to do some work on our app.<p>Must be competent with Swift 3, xCode Auto Layout, and HTTP (REST calls). Your duties would include working on a few features as needed, tightening up existing layouts to work on all phone sizes, and implementing layouts that have been pre-designed.<p>Please email a resume and any extra information we may need (a github or bitbucket profile, perhaps) to hopkins.declan@gmail.com.<p>Thanks!

by: bdr
text: NYC, remote ok.<p>I&#x27;m working on a poetry distribution and discovery platform. Think Spotify, but for poetry (text, not audio, to start). This is a tiny market! It&#x27;s not a startup. Just something that needs to exist that I&#x27;m devoting some time &amp; money toward.<p>Backend: Django&#x2F;Heroku&#x2F;Postgres&#x2F;<p>Frontend: TypeScript&#x2F;React<p>Seeking a ~4-6 month part-time commitment.<p>Please email me (in profile) with experience, interest, availability, and rates.

by: nickreese
text: — Remote preferred. (Austin, TX &amp; Sarasota, FL)<p>Looking for an experienced full stack, Microsoft focused, web developer.<p>Stack: C#, Asp.net MVC&#x2F;Webforms, MS SQL Server, SCSS&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;JS<p>Our fully distributed team is looking to add another .NET rockstar to our ranks. Our projects revolve around simplifying the broadband industry, most notably <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;broadbandnow.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;broadbandnow.com</a>.<p>In short, we’ve got the best coverage data in the industry and we’re looking for another rockstar to help us make the ISP space better for consumers and businesses looking for service.<p>Interview process: We do a quick 30-45 minute coding challenge and a ~30 minute Skype call. If everything looks good, we set up a paid fixed priced test project. From there we look for a long-term mutual fit.<p>We’ve had great experience hiring freelancers off of these monthly postings, so figured it was worth dropping our info here as well.<p>Feel free to drop me a note via firstname @ broadbandnow.com (grab the first 4 letters of my username if in doubt) with your prior experience and what challenges interest you in the broadband industry.

by: caseyohara
text: REMOTE OK<p>PrintReleaf | Ruby on Rails Developer | Denver, CO | REMOTE <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;printreleaf.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;printreleaf.com</a><p>Environmental Sustainability Startup &#x2F;&#x2F; Founded in 2013<p>Help us build the world’s first platform for automated reforestation. We measure paper consumption at businesses, equate it to the number of trees deforested to produce that paper, and automate the reforestation of those trees at planting projects around the world.<p>We&#x27;re hiring for the following positions:<p>– Application Developers (Part-Time&#x2F;Contract)<p>Stack: Ruby&#x2F;Rails&#x2F;Postgres&#x2F;Redis<p>The PrintReleaf product layer is powered by Ruby on Rails: everything from our suite of dashboard and account management applications, to our public APIs and marketing site. As a developer on the product team, you build and maintain customer-facing and internal web applications and APIs using modern tools and an open-source stack. We use Rails 4.2 on Ruby 2.2 with Postgres and Redis. We use Linux on AWS in production, and we automate our infrastructure and deployments using tools like Terraform and Ansible.<p>– Platform Developers (Part-Time&#x2F;Contract)<p>Stack: Java&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;Akka&#x2F;Postgres&#x2F;Redis<p>Contribute to all aspects of platform software development: from the REST API, underlying service architecture and workflow engine, to social messaging and data collection integrations. We use Java&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;Akka + Postgres + Redis. We use Linux on AWS in production, and we automate our infrastructure and deployments using tools like Terraform and Ansible.<p>More info and apply here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;printreleaf.com&#x2F;careers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;printreleaf.com&#x2F;careers</a><p>Questions: cohara@printreleaf.com

by: javier_cardona
text: San Francisco, CA.  Remote OK<p>We are looking for help to layout our prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs).  Requirements:<p>- Experience laying out multi-layer PCBs, with RF (cellular), audio and other digital signals (SPI, USB, I2C, …).<p>- Worked on boards from concept to production.<p>- Experience creating and managing footprints for Kicad.<p>- Experience working with multiple PCB fabrication houses and diverse design rules.<p>- Experience troubleshooting prototypes, implementing reworks.<p>- Capturing and documenting layout decisions to the team.<p>- Familiarity with git for version control.<p>- Familiarity with Kicad Stepup would be a bonus!<p>We could use little or a lot of help, depending on your availability and interest.<p>Please contact us at founders@okio.io, Subject: Kicad Layout Engineer Freelancer, and include some examples of your work (Gerbers, PDF and&#x2F;or photos of boards you laid out).

by: adprofits
text: Canada, REMOTE
Seeking someone to build an ecommerce CRM. Available market options are LimeLight CRM and Konnektive (which we are aware of), but limelight has too much downtime and Konnektive has unfavourable contract terms.<p>In essence, seeking to move our funnels from ClickFunnels (on which we test) to our own private CRM with admin reporting, sales functionality, email integrations, etc. See LL &#x2F; Konnektive (and ClickFunnels) sites to get more of an idea, but looking to work with someone familiar with the space.<p>Email: adprofitsmedia [AT] GMAIL [DOT] com

by: zarak
text: Denver, CO &#x2F; Remote Ok<p>We are a small consulting firm and have a really unique opportinuty to help build a greenfield application for a Fortune 500 company.<p>We are currently looking for Freelance in a few areas:<p>* Cassandra - either from a development or operations prespective.<p>* Scala, Akka and Reactive Application Development.  Or experience with Java 8 Lambdas and an interested in learning Scala.<p>* Operations Experience with Docker, AWS, Go, Python or in similiar areas.<p>* Client Side either React or iOS<p>If you are interested please send over a resume and any extra information that you think would be useful - like github.<p>Email: zarak (at) 7wilds (dot) com

by: Yuvrajv5
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Company: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceotechnologies.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceotechnologies.com</a><p>Core area: Mobile application development(Android, iOS)<p>We&#x27;re looking for a person who can write and publish a Guest Post on high authority websites.<p>Interested?<p>Send me previously published articles and your profile links at: yuvrajsinh.spaceo@gmail.com

by: ThomPete
text: New York, Brooklyn or Remote<p>WINDOWS DEVELOPER:<p>Looking for windows developer with experience in windows development for a time tracking app. WinAPI, (C&#x2F;C++) and .NET for UI (C#)<p>---<p>IOS AND ANDROID DEVELOPER<p>For development of an GPS&#x2F;Beacon&#x2F;Geofence based mobile tracking application.<p>---<p>PHP&#x2F;Javascript DEVELOPER<p>Experience in Laravel a plus, building a platform for a producticity platform.<p>Please mail: info@ghostnoteapp.com

by: adamqureshi
text: SEEKING FREELANCER.<p>REMOTE : possible USA BASED ONLY.<p>PREFER : NYC<p>TECH: LAMP STACK EXPERT. BUILDING BACKEND FOR APPS &#x2F; SITES &#x2F; API<p>email me in profile.